RELATED: GOP Sen. Murkowski opposed vote on Supreme Court vacancy before elections prior to Ginsburg's deathJust hours before Biden spoke, a second Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, joined Sen.
Susan Collins of Maine in opposing efforts to fill Ginsburg's seat before the next president is elected.It takes four Republicans to break ranks to keep Trump's nominee off the court.
Attention quickly focused on Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who voted to convict Trump on one count of impeachment, and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a former chairman of the Judiciary Committee.AdvertisementBiden acknowledged that those Republicans and others like them were his target audience when he warned that Trump's plan was an “abuse of power.”“Uphold your.